Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Remastered) The Flaming Lips

• 1 Fight Test 04:16
• 2 One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21 04:57
• 3 Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 1 04:45
• 4 Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 2 02:57
• 5 In The Morning Of The Magicians 06:19
• 6 Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell 04:33
• 7 Are You A Hypnotist?? 04:44
• 8 It's Summertime 05:45
• 9 Do You Realize?? 03:32
• 10 All We Have Is Now 03:53
• 11 Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon [Utopia Planitia] 03:12
• Total Runtime 48:53

Info for Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Remastered)

The Flaming Lips 2002 "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" is inarguably one of their best works. The album has now been made into a play allowing the main character to add one more thing to her resume along with working for the city, being a black belt in karate, and defeating evil machines.

Aarkon Sorkin, the screenwriter responsible for A Few Good Men and the fast-paced dialogue of The Social Network was originally signed on, but backed out when it was decided it would be ‘sung through.” Jersey Boys' Des McAnuff has stepped in to write and direct the play with frontman Wayne Coyne.

"It's a big deal. It's hokey and wonderful and poignant and powerful,” Coyne told Billboard. “It's really become a perfect combination of my fantastical robot-world vision and [McAnuff's] little, internal, humanistic version of what that music is. I really believe it could work - and luckily I don't have to do much!"

Thirty songs will be used, including tunes from The Soft Bulletin and At War with the Mystics. Expect it to be trippy, futuristic, and one of the few musicals that attracts those high on shrooms.

"The long-reigning kings of big-sky psychedelia emerge from their Oklahoma City bunker to ask this musical question: If the Powerpuff Girls took on Black Sabbath's "Iron Man," who would win? The answer, in this case, is the listener. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots isn't the end-to-end triumph that was 1999's The Soft Bulletin, still the most beauteous of Lips albums. But the production is equally ambitious, with burbling electrobeats underpinning sci-fi orchestrations that sound like the brainchild of Esquivel and the Orb. Techno isn't the band's forte, as "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 2" demonstrates. But elsewhere the trio's love of sound sorcery is gently folded into gorgeous melodies such as "In the Morning of the Magicians," "Are You a Hypnotist??" and "Do You Realize?" "All we have is now," Wayne Coyne sings, and the Lips sound absolutely ecstatic to be living in the moment." (Greg Kot, Rolling Stone Maganzine)

Wayne Coyne, guitar & vocal
Michael Ivins, bass & vocal
Steven Drozd, drums & vocal

Producer: Scott Booker
Recorded at Tarbox Road Studios in Cassadaga, New York, June 2000 - April 2002.

The Flaming Lips are an American rock band, formed in Norman, Oklahoma in 1983.

Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as "Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles", "Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)" and "Yeah, I Know It's a Drag... But Wastin' Pigs Is Still Radical". They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die".

The group recorded several albums and EPs on an indie label, Restless, in the 1980s and early 1990s. After signing to Warner Brothers, they scored a hit in 1993 with "She Don't Use Jelly". Although it has been their only hit single in the U.S., the band has maintained critical respect and, to a lesser extent, commercial viability through albums such as 1999's The Soft Bulletin (which was NME magazine's Album of the Year) and 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. They have had more hit singles in the UK and Europe than in the U.S. In February 2007, they were nominated for a 2007 BRIT Award in the "Best International Act" category. By 2007, the group garnered three Grammy Awards, including two for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

On October 13, 2009 the group released their latest studio album, titled Embryonic. On December 22, 2009, the Flaming Lips released a remake of the 1973 Pink Floyd album The Dark Side Of The Moon. In 2011, the band announced plans to release new songs in every month of the year, with the entire process filmed.

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